Adds the ability to retrieve async notifications using dblink,
via the addition of the function dblink_get_notify(). Original patch
by Marcus Kempe, suggestions by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera, patch
review and adjustments by Joe Conway.
create an ABI break between 8.3 and 8.4. It is still just a wrapper around
the built-in current_query() function, but at a different implementation
level. Per my proposal.
Note: this change doesn't break 8.4beta installations, since their
SQL-language definition of the function still works fine.
review/feedback if anyone is interested and can spend the time. But I'd
also love to get this committed and address changes as incremental
patches ;-), so if there are no objections, please apply.
Below I'll give a synopsis of the changes. More detailed descriptions
are now in a new doc directory under contrib/dblink. There is also a new
dblink.test.sql file which will give a pretty good overview of the
functions and their use.
Joe Conway
objections.
Major changes:
- removed cursor wrap around input sql to allow for remote
execution of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
- dblink now returns a resource id instead of a real pointer
- added several utility functions
I'm still hoping to add explicit cursor open/fetch/close support before
7.3 is released, but I need a bit more time on that.
On a somewhat unrelated topic, I never got any feedback on the
unknownin/out patch and the mb_substring patch. Is there anything else I
need to do to get those applied?
Joe Conway
